Calendar

Professor: Kenneth G. Wilson -wilsonkg@muoho.edu 367C Tue & Thur 11am-12 others by appointment

Assistant: Shirisha Yelamanchili, yelamas@muohio.edu 356 PSN - Tue&Thur 4-5 pm

Activity Date	Topic	Reading	Assignments on Blackboard
Lecture 1 10 Jan	Introduction General Scientific Method	chapter 1	Who are you?
Lecture 2 12 Jan	Mendel Mendels Scientific Method	chapter 2
Lecture 3 17 Jan	Genetics and Organisms Enlarge Gene Material Watson and Crick use the scientific method for model building	Chapter 10	Where was Christopher Columbus burried?
Lecture 4 19 Jan	Properties DNA Chromosomes	Chapter 10
Lecture 5 24 Jan	DNA Replication	Chapter 12
Lecture 6 26 Jan	Advanced DNA Replication	Chapter 12
Lecture 7 31 Jan	Nearest Neighbor ala Kornberg Gene Function - Central Dogma Enzyme Substrate Complex Active Site	Chapter 15	DNA sought to ID skeleton at Jamestown
Lecture 8 2 Feb	Neurospora Mutants-Auxotroph Arginine mutant Analysis of arg- mutants Positions of Mutant Enzyme Pathies PKU CF Protein CF on Chromosome Recessive or Haplosufficient Percentages of protein coding genes	Chapter 15
Lecture 9 7 Feb	Chromosome Separation Mitosis Cell Cycle Cloning Carrots Dolly	Chapter 2
9 Feb	Meiosis How is linear information converted to 3Dimensional Transcription - Translation - "Code Cracking"	Chapter 2 & 15
14 Feb		Chapter 16
16 Feb	Examination 1 -- Study Sheet 1		Section A Rm 128 PSN
21 Feb	No Class
23 Feb	Over view of gene Function, Regulation of lac Gene Transcription Eukaryote Transcription Plants Animals Regulation of Gene Translation	Chapter 13, 14, 16
28 Feb	Gene Engineering	Chapter 18
2 March
7 March	Sequencing DNA TIGR genomics	Chapter 19
9 March	Bacterial Genetics More Bacterial Genetics: 3 alternatives to sex	Chapter 8
14/18 March	No Class Spring Break
21 March	/Transposons	Chapter 10 Chapter 13
23 March	Mendel Two Genes naming genes tests for a gene cis-trans	Chapter 3
28 March	chromosome linkage 2 point linkage prediction 3 point crosses linkage predict 2 Summary of Crossing Over Proof of Crossing Over Using Linkage Data	Chapter 4 & 7	Applications of DNA technology Genomics
30 March	Examination -	Study Sheet 2
4 April	Applications of DNA technology Genomics		Study Session - 5-7 pm rm 112 PSN
6 April	test Section A(9:30am) in Room 128 PSN Section B 116 PSN
11 April	Sex
13 April	Sex Linkage in Fruit Flies Linkage in Humans -Log Odds
18 April	Errors in Mitosis/Meiosis
20 April	Non linkage exceptions to Mendel's Laws- Co- Dominance Multiple Alleles Lethal genes
25 April	Hardy-Weinberg Law modern evolutionists
27 April	Orthologous vs Paralogous Paralogs gene trees nuclear vs unclear Organell Loss - Organelle alteration
28 April	Study Session 4-6 on Friday 116 PSN
1 May	Final Section B - 2:45 PM 128 PSN	Study sheet
3May	Study Session 2:45-4:45 pm Wednesday 116 PSN
5 May	Final Section A - 7:30 AM 128 PSN